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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

Plato
Practice, Skills, Excellence

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Plato
Plato, Perfection, Excellence
Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.2224, Catholic Way Publishing

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

Plato
Thinking, Soul, Excellence
Plato, Raymond Larson (1979). “The Republic”, Wiley-Blackwell

Excellent things are rare.

Plato
Excellence, Excellent
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

Plato
Excellence, Doe, Wealth

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

Plato
Death, Men, Excellence
Phaedo 118a

If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.

Plato
Sex, Excellence, Unions

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